satisfied - Story 122227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung heavy with the smell of old wood and forgotten things. Clara, however, was not concerned. She was beaming. She had found them!

Each item brought back a flood of memories: the first time she won a spelling bee, the time she got an 'A' on her history project, the time she wrote the terrible poem.

Clara ran her hand over a drawing, a crudely rendered self-portrait that made her laugh out loud. She felt… at peace. The world was quiet. It was nice.

Emotion: satisfied

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.20 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.31

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion satisfied. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 satisfied stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the satisfied emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the satisfied vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.518
`happy`	0.465
`enjoy`	0.439
`relaxed`	0.430
`enjoys`	0.429

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.515
`C`	-0.511
`😣`	-0.510
`worse`	-0.477
`😖`	-0.453